Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-17
NEWS NOTES.

A musical society has been formed in New
York to i'extend the Interpretation OF
Wapmer's music" The bOiler-shOp in which
the Interpretation viii happen has not yet
been selected
Several members of the Russian mission
we're killed in a riot at kashgar, provoked
bv insults offered by the Russians to Mo
hammedau women. The embassy has re-
turned to Khokand.
A Pittsburg vegetable peddler named
Thomas Joyce fatally shot his wife, and
dangerously wounded his daughter. He was
half drunk, and said he intended to Kill
them and himself.
Twelve cents a word from New York to
England, Ireland, and France, and 10 cents
to Germany, are the rates TO be charged
hereafter by the Commercial Gable company.
The company has voted an addition OF 81
600, 600 TO its capital stock
1t is intimated that Jay Gould furnished
the cash invested in the purchase or lease OF
the Baltimore and Ohio express.
Richard Emerson. a boy sixteen years old,
died at Kenosha, Wisconsin, of hydropho-
Dia. He was bitten by a Pct dog two months
ago.
Further examination of the effects of Cliff
ford, alias Dale, the horse thief captured IN
Chicago the other day, leaves no doubt that
he was preparing TO attempt passing series
of bank forgeries. He had selected the FOIt
Dearborn bank as one of his victims, and
had been practicing limitations of signatures
of genuine drafts. The police believe that
he belongs to gang, and are hoping for
cieWs as to its membership.
Two months ago the law-abiding people of
Paramount, Indiana, used dynamite IN blow
ing up a building intended to be used as a
saloon. The owner erected another house,
but the people have again torn 1t down,
piling the material in the street
1t is stated in ''the highest official circles
at Ottawa that Premier Macdonald is angry
because he was not consulted about the fish
cries commission, and threatens to ''repudi-
ate ana ignore any decision that may be
arrived at" The Canadians ought to take
care that Sir JOl II, Ia his present temper,
does not get too much fighting whisky. -
Canada is a great country, but it might be a
serious matter even for her to go to war
with England and the United States-bOth
at once.
Self-defense is one of the deedliest mala-
dies now prevailing in Kentucky. Not long
ago Ed Cooley, living near Lancaster, while
suffering from the disease, killed George
Scott with an AK. lie had another attack on
Thursday night, when two brothers named
Ga cen, being inspired by kentucAy's tavOrlUe
beverage, fired their pistols at him. Cooley
cOOlly returned the little attention with
shotgun and revolver. One Green was killed
and the other fatally wounded. Mr.. Cooley
is lust now cOnvalescent, but a relapse into
self-defense may overcome him at any time.
The prosecuting authorities of AIontrea
have decided, it is said, to prosecute Mr.
Hickson, manager of the Grand Trunk road
upon the verdict of a cOrOner's jury holding
the company crimiually responsible for the
death of two men who were run over oy
train.
On sixty-two of the principal railroads in
the country, in July, the gross earnings per
mile exceeded by % per cent, the earnings
for July, 1886.
The 884 carriers employed by the Chicago
pOstofice delivered in August 5,l97 ,2lS let
ters 49, 522 registered letters 235, 5l4 postal
cards, and 2,4l5,9lO newspapers, etc. The
collections of mail matter for the month
were 4, IO9,61O letters, $50, 40 local letters,
3l5, 42l local cards, s462, 80 mail cards, and
2, 3l2, ga newspapers
Myrtle Watson, 4 years old, died at As
sumption Illinois, on Saturday, from eating
poisonous sugar-cOated ills.
A fireman named DOering, employed on
the Missouri Pacific railroad at Sedalia
Missouri, desiring to have his wife return
from st. Louis, had a dispatch sent to that
city reporting that he had been killed in an
accident His brother and sister responded
to the telegram, and were disappointed and
disguised at finding DOering alive and well.
At last accounts the wife had not been heard
from.
An Australian wOol-brOker named John
Stairenghi has been arrested in San Francisco
for fOrgeries on a Melbourne bank aggregat-
ing $4,000.
The Irish National league meeting at
Ennis ended without the expected riot, Zen
thousand peopOle assembled, but the hill at
which the meeting was to be held was
guarded, and the procession halted and
speeches were made from carriages. A
troop of hussars caused the crowd to return
to Ennis, where another speech was made
They were followed by the troops and police
and finally dispersed quietly.
The premier of Manitoba, Mr.. Norquay,
telegraphs that he las secured all the funds
needed to complete the Red River Valley
railroad. The iron for the line has not vet
been delivered, and a Winnipeg telegram
says II VIII not be until PAD for.
''Luczy Baldwin's'' race-horse. Lucky B..
died of meningitis, at sheepshead Bay. The
horse had won $4,000 for his owner since
his appearance as a two year-old at Chicago
hve years ago.
A Montreal widow named Defoy, having
secured fortune OF $4,000 left by her hus-
band, married an advanturer named PAXTON,
who induced her to 90 to New York, where
she says, PayUOn robbed her of $50 600 and
abandoned her. she has been inquiring
after the lost man at New Haven. COnnecti-
cut, without success.
The courts have got the st. Louis Sunday
closing law so mixed up that the police will
make no further effort to close the saloons
On SUNDAY unit the supreme court
dlsentangles the matter.
Resolutions denouncing the Knights Of La
Dor were introduced and favOrabIy received.
at the meeting Of the German Catholic
central union in Chicago.
Suspecting the possibility of an anarchist
attempt to blow up the jail and release the
imprisoned murderers, the Chicago police
are said TO be keeping a sharp lookout for
tunnels and other devices about the building.
Paris dispatches say that France has ac-
cepted England's proposal for the neutraliZa-
ton of the SUez canal and the settlement of
the New Hebrides question.
The office of the Credit AIobilier in Paris
has been robbed of 10000 francs. The
concern isn't our old friend which gave Mr..
Cakes Ames and several Cristian statesmen
so much fame a few years ago, and which
never let anybody rob It.
Two boys, calling themselves SkibbIe and
Joseph sherman. are IN jail at Peru, Indiana,
for burglary. They say they are from Chica-
90, but some wealthy Cincinnati people are
looking for strays and think the youthful
burglars belong to them.
The Canadian governments organ in
Montreal asserts that the fisheries commits
sion viii not be limited to the question of
fishing rights, but viii be authorized to con-
slider the question of reciprocity and general
commercial relations with the United
States
In the United States court at Jefferson
City, Missouri, two of the "Bald knobs
gang were convicted under the KukluX law
Tor beating, intimldating and driving away
homestead settlers. The gang has been
terrorlzlng half a dozen counties in southern
Missouri. Others of its members are to be
tried.
By the collision of two passenger t-ains-
the fast mail following a regular passenger
and running into the latter's sleeping-car-
near Creston, Iowa, an infant was killed; its